The Debate Continues on Cancer-Treatment Therapies and Statistics

The current state of the art in medicine is "evidence based medicine." Therapies that seem to be common sense often do not turn out to be helpful and are often harmful as well as expensive. We know that having a high level of HDL cholesterol correlates with having fewer heart attacks and cardiac deaths. So it is common sense that a medicine that raises HDL should cut down on these problems. And yet a recent medicine...